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Leviticus 13:9-20 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

9. “When a skin disease develops on a person, he is to be brought to the priest.

10. The priest will examine him. If there is a white swelling on the skin that has turned the hair white, and there is a patch of raw flesh in the swelling,

11. it is a chronic disease on the skin of his body, and the priest must pronounce him unclean. He need not quarantine him, for he is unclean.

12. But if the skin disease breaks out all over the skin so that it covers all the skin of the infected person from his head to his feet so far as the priest can see,

13. the priest will look, and if the skin disease has covered his entire body, he is to pronounce the infected person clean. Since he has turned totally white, he is clean.

14. But whenever raw flesh appears on him, he will be unclean.

15. When the priest examines the raw flesh, he must pronounce him unclean. Raw flesh is unclean; it is a skin disease.

16. But if the raw flesh changes and turns white, he must go to the priest.

17. The priest will examine him, and if the infection has turned white, the priest must pronounce the infected person clean; he is clean.

18. “When a boil appears on the skin of one’s body and it heals,

19. and a white swelling or a reddish-white spot develops where the boil was, the person must present himself to the priest.

20. The priest will make an examination, and if the spot seems to be beneath the skin and the hair in it has turned white, the priest must pronounce him unclean; it is a skin disease that has broken out in the boil.

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